Fundamentals of Renewable Energy Systems goes beyond theoretical aspects of advances in renewable energy and addresses future trends. By focusing on the design of developing technologies, relevant operation and detailed background and an understanding of the application of power electronics and thermodynamics processes in renewable energy, this book provides an analysis of advancing energy systems. The book will be of interest to engineering graduates, researchers, professors and industry professionals involved in the renewable energy sector and is ideal for advanced engineering courses dealing with renewable energy, sources, thermal and electrical energy production and sustainability. With increasing focus on developing low carbon energy production, audiences need to have the engineering knowledge and practical skills to develop and implement creative solutions to engineering problems encountered with renewable energy technologies. By looking at renewable energy capture and conversion, system design and analysis, project development and implementation, each modular chapter examines recent advances in specific renewable energy systems with detailed methods, calculations and worked examples.

The process of building an understanding of the existing system is time consuming and takes around 40% of the allocated time for a maintenance task. Numerous efforts have been made to reduce the time consumed in the program comprehension process by providing support to the programmer during this phase. Full automation of the process of developing an understanding of the program is not possible since it involves human learning activity. Therefore, it has been suggested that the specialized tools should help the programmer discover the software amicably. The segments of the program that can be attractive from the comprehension viewpoint must be brought into the notice of the programmer by the exploration tools. In our case the program discovery tool should pinpoint the key classes of the object-oriented system that are fundamental to its design.

Efficient fault detection of distribution transformers has great worth when installation of distribution transformers in the field is taken into account. Computer software has been developed which makes it possible to detect the region of fault location and evaluate the strength of insulation puncturing. It is capable of locating the position of fault along with total percentage of insulation breakdown region. Different evaluation tests are performed which are capable to recognize not only visible faults but also those faults in the windings of distribution transformers which cannot be captured. Such kinds of faults in transformers generally pass the impulse test but when they are installed in the field they are subjected to cause the insulation failure of windings. The evaluation techniques remarkably cop up with such kind of insulation breakdowns and present a good quality approach of evaluation for undesired dominant frequencies. With the help of this research a new method of impulse testing can be introduced. The scope of this research is to facilitate the transformer designers and manufacturers to improve their designing techniques of insulations which is not yet introduced.

LSCIC pre coder is designed keeping in view the problems or variations in system's bandwidth. The emphasis of this research is to design and implement a customized chip which may handle worst and best band width situations at the same time with approximately no difference in reconstructed image quality. It is concluded the designed circuit is made adaptive to variable bandwidth conditions. VHDL coding and synthesis of this Chip is carried out in this research alongwith the introduction to fast RAM unit which contains image data temporarily. Conclusions and results of this research shows maximum PSNR and minimum MSR (Mean square error)to justify the best image reconstruction methodology.

The major part of this book examines the impact of Khushhali Bank Limited (KBL), the largest microfinance bank with a huge network of branches all across the country, on the socio-economic characteristics of beneficiary women and to study the improvement in their economy and social status.The findings suggest that micro-credit has positive impact on women socio-economic status and empowerment.It increases to some extent self- confidence and feelings of identity for women in the society.The study also entailed lack of centralized system between the microfinance institutions that increased the risk of dual loaning.